The boring thread.....

[Mups]

I have an electric ceiling fan.
It is started by a wireless remote control.
As I sat here it started up. It took me a minute or two to realise it was running - I just heard a slight noise and felt a draught.

Spooky. I think it must have been somebody outside opening their car door that started it.

Ooh I say . . .  spooky indeed.     

[klondike]

It only takes the right code and I doubt it has any security.

This room is two knocked into one but I had the house rewired and the lights each side are not actually separate and both come on together. When I put the fan in replacing that light as the fan has one inbuilt I also added a wireless switch for the light on the other side so both sides are powered on and controlled by remotes.

Car remotes and umpteen other things all use the same frequency range. Most are protected by codes so they only respond to a paired remote. Either the fan doesn't have that or by chance the coding was the same as another remote for something outside. Car remotes change codes every time they are used for security so they can't be recorded by scallywags.

[Mups]

Blimey,  don't you lead have a complicated life.   

[klondike]

The world gets ever more complex I'm afraid.

It's old technology that is causing me grief at the moment. One of the radiators fails to heat up correctly. It isn't a case of bleeding it. I suspect there could be a blockage in the pipework leading to it but all that is completely inaccessible.

I've decided to add another radiator fed from pipes that are accessible and it should be a straightforward DIY job but I can't really tackle it til spring or later in case I bugger it all up.

[Mups]

The world gets ever more complex I'm afraid.

It's old technology that is causing me grief at the moment. One of the radiators fails to heat up correctly. It isn't a case of bleeding it. I suspect there could be a blockage in the pipework leading to it but all that is completely inaccessible.

I've decided to add another radiator fed from pipes that are accessible and it should be a straightforward DIY job but I can't really tackle it til spring or later in case I bugger it all up.

Blimey.   You are clever. 
Is there anything you can't do?  

[klondike]

My father taught me a lot about DIY. That instilled in me the idea that I should fix most things myself. I have always had an interest in science and kept up with as much as I could over the years. I have a skin deep knowledge of a lot of things and an in depth knowledge of few. The precise opposite of most professional folk these days who have an in depth knowledge of a tiny field and next to bugger all about anything else.

[Mups]

My father taught me a lot about DIY. That instilled in me the idea that I should fix most things myself. I have always had an interest in science and kept up with as much as I could over the years. I have a skin deep knowledge of a lot of things and an in depth knowledge of few. The precise opposite of most professional folk these days who have an in depth knowledge of a tiny field and next to bugger all about anything else.

I've always been pretty useless. 

About the only things I've ever been good at is Plants, and Animals.


(Oh,  before I retired I used to work in Care at an old folks home,  and I was told by one of the residents, that  I was 'a natural carer.'   I've always remembered that,  I thought that was a lovely thing to say).

[dextrous63]

The world gets ever more complex I'm afraid.

It's old technology that is causing me grief at the moment. One of the radiators fails to heat up correctly. It isn't a case of bleeding it. I suspect there could be a blockage in the pipework leading to it but all that is completely inaccessible.

I've decided to add another radiator fed from pipes that are accessible and it should be a straightforward DIY job but I can't really tackle it til spring or later in case I bugger it all up.

Might be easier (and cheaper) to remove the dodgy radiator, flush it out with a hose in the garden, and try flushing out the pipes by attaching a hose to the exposed and thus accessible tails. 😉

[GrannyMac]

Blimey,  don't you lead have a complicated life.   

Just what I thought!


Ta everyone for the good wishes. 👍🏽 

[klondike]

Part of the reason for the slow temperature is that the feed pipes are not insulated and must run alongside cold water pipes as the cold tap water is slightly warm when the heating is on.

This is the radiator that went stone cold a while back and I thought the thermostatic valve must be iffy and replaced it. After all the messing about that involved it did start working again albeit still at a bit lower temperature than the other rads.

The system is almost all plastic pipes so there is no electrolytic action between copper pipes and steel rads that cause the sludge in some systems. I don't know exactly what may be wrong but suspect it is probably a small chunk of maybe plastic residue lodged in the pipe somewhere. All the pipes to it lie underneath the kitchen floor which is tiled and a shower room toilet.

My plan is to pretty much write off that radiator and add another. I have a space worked out and all the pipework is easily accessible in the cellar. When the price of gas went sky high I turned off a big hall radiator and will add the new one onto the pipes that feed that.

[dextrous63]

Ah!  Why is it that only things with inaccessible, er, access tend to go wrong??

[klondike]

If I ever meet that Murphy I'll be giving him a black eye. 

The inaccessibility is another reason I won't be trying pressure to flush anything out if the pipework. It could probably take the 7 bar pressure my local suppy has if it totally blocked but if for some reason it didn't.....

[dextrous63]

Is the pipe work embedded in concrete?

[dextrous63]

My father taught me a lot about DIY. That instilled in me the idea that I should fix most things myself. I have always had an interest in science and kept up with as much as I could over the years. I have a skin deep knowledge of a lot of things and an in depth knowledge of few. The precise opposite of most professional folk these days who have an in depth knowledge of a tiny field and next to bugger all about anything else.

Has to be said klondy that this isn't quite as punchy as Liam Neeson's line "I have a particular set of skills.." , but is was a good attempt though😬

[klondike]

Is the pipe work embedded in concrete?

No but getting to it would be an absolute PITA.
It's a long shot but I will replace the lockshield later today. Not much to go wrong with them really. Going to waste some lead while saving clay pigeons from destruction this morning after which it's a cup of tea and natter with daughter and her husband who live about a mile from the clay ground. After that I'll pick up a lockshield and have a go at the job.

February 19, 2025, 08:39:33 AM

Has to be said klondy that this isn't quite as punchy as Liam Neeson's line "I have a particular set of skills.." , but is was a good attempt though😬

More a random set  of things I know something about. Usually enough to BS my way into kidding those who know nothing about them into thinking I may know more than I really do.